if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces. — Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
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if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

— Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978
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